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On Thursday, March 3 at 2 p.m. ET, Lucan Way, Co-Director of the Munk School’s Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine will examine the latest developments with a panel of experts including Volodymyr Dubovyk, an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations and Director of Center for International Studies at I. Mechnykov National University in Odessa, Marta Dyczok, an Associate Professor of History and Political Science at Western University, Olga Onuch, a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, Oxana Shevel, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, and Tatiana Zhuzhenko, Research Fellow, Centre for East European and International Studies, Berlin.

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Please note that the panel is scheduled to start at 1 pm and end at 2.15 pm.

Matthew Light studies migration control, policing and criminal justice, and public and citizen security, primarily in the post-Soviet region. His book (Routledge 2016) and several related articles on Russian federal and regional migration policies in the aftermath of the breakup of the USSR analyze what forms of freedom of movement emerged in the new post-Soviet Russian state, and frames the Soviet and post-Soviet experience with migration management in comparative international perspective. Light’s recent work concerns policing and other aspects of public and citizen security in several post-Soviet countries, including Russia, Georgia, and Armenia, and examines the evolution of both public policing institutions and private provision of security in the region.

Professor Margarita M. Balmaceda, Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations, joined the School of Diplomacy and International Relations in 1999. She teaches courses on the Politics of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity, on Post-Soviet and East European Politics and Foreign Policies, as well on Master’s Research Project. Currently she is an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. A specialist on the comparative energy politics of the post-Soviet states, since 2000 she has been “following the pipeline” – i.e. following the complex web of interconnections that accompany the energy relationship between Russian oil and gas producers, post-Soviet transit states, and European consumers. This research agenda has taken her on multiple field research stays in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Hungary and Moldova. Support from three Fulbright Awards, as well as funding from the Ford Foundation, the, Humboldt Foundation, the DAAD and many other foundations, has made possible such ambitious research agenda. Fluent in Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, German, near-fluent in Hungarian and with a good working knowledge of Belarusian, Dr. Balmaceda feels very much at home almost everywhere in Eastern Europe. And with the strong international presence at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, she is happy to use her language skills in many one-to one discussions with her students.

Sam Greene is professor in Russian politics and Director of the Russia Institute at King’s College London. Prior to moving to London in 2012 to join King’s, he lived and worked in Moscow for 13 years, most recently as director of the Centre for the Study of New Media & Society at the New Economic School, and as deputy director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He holds a PhD in political sociology from the London School of Economics & Political Science. His most recent book, co-authored with Graeme Robertson, is Putin v the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia, published in 2019 by Yale University Press. His previous book, Moscow in Movement: Power & Opposition in Putin’s Russia, was published in 2014 by Stanford University Press. Sam’s academic work has been published in leading disciplinary and area studies journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, The Journal of Democracy, Post-Soviet Affairs and Problems of Post-Communism. He regularly contributes opinion and analysis pieces to general interest publications, such as The Washington Post, The Moscow Times, Foreign Policy, The New Statesman and others, and is a frequent commentator in British, American, Russian and European broadcast and print media.

Paul Massaro is the senior policy advisor for counter-corruption and sanctions. Paul’s work has advanced the recognition of corruption as a national security threat. He has been described in the media as “one of America’s foremost corruption experts” and an “endless source of democratic ingenuity.” He has worked on over 13 pieces of counter-corruption legislation and facilitated the founding of the Congressional Caucus against Foreign Corruption and Kleptocracy and the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance against Kleptocracy. Paul also covers German-speaking Europe and East Asia. His work on the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act, a landmark law redefining doping as fraud and making it illegal in international competitions anywhere in the world, has for the first time provided justice to clean athletes and held to account the authoritarian actors who use sport as a tool of foreign policy. The Associated Press described the unanimous passage of the act as “a remarkable achievement considering the polarization in U.S. politics.” His work on the Transnational Repression Accountability and Prevention (TRAP) Act was similarly groundbreaking, serving as the first-ever U.S. law to respond to abuse of INTERPOL by authoritarian regimes. Paul is regularly quoted and published by major media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, POLITICO, and Foreign Policy, and he speaks frequently on panels, podcasts, and broadcasts about corruption, sanctions, and European security policy. His work is featured in Casey Michel’s book American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History. He co-hosts the award-winning Making a Killing podcast, which explores how corruption is reshaping global politics. He is a fellow at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Kleptocracy Initiative, and a member of the Royal United Services Institute’s Transatlantic Response to Illicit Finance Taskforce. Paul is an alumnus of the National Endowment for Democracy Penn Kemble Fellowship and the Robertson Foundation for Government Fellowship. He speaks fluent German.

Tymofiy Mylovanov is a President of Kyiv School of Economics. He graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (Management) in 1997 and from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy majoring in Economic Theory in 1999. In 2004 he got his PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA).
During his professional career, he has been teaching for a long time at the European and American universities, including Rheinische Friedrich–Wilhelms–Universität Bonn, University of Pennsylvania and University of Pittsburgh. Tymofiy’s research interests cover such areas as theory of games and contracts, institutional design. His articles on these topics have been published in the leading international academic magazines, including Econometrica, American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies. During the Revolution of Dignity, jointly with other leading economists of Ukraine and the world, he founded the VoxUkraine platform aimed to increase the level of economic discussion in Ukraine. On July 7, 2016 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine elected Tymofiy Mylovanov to the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine, and since October 2016 and until August 2019 he has been holding the position of Deputy Chairman of the Board. From August 2019 to March 2020, Tymofiy Milovanov held the post of Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine. On April 6th, Tymofiy Milovanov returned to work at the Kyiv School of Economics as President. In 2014 and 2015 (the rating was not issued anymore) Forbes Ukraine included Tymofiy Mylovanov in the ranking of the best Ukrainian economists. Thanks to extensive economic knowledge, belonging to the international academic community and familiarity with the situation in Ukraine Tymofiy Mylovanov makes a significant contribution to the development of KSE.

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Yevgenia M. Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, author, and radio host. Since 2007 she has been the Political Editor and then Editor-in-Chief and CEO of The New Times, a Moscow-based, Russian language independent political weekly. Since 2004, Albats has hosted Absolute Albats, a talk-show on Echo Moskvy, the only remaining liberal radio station in Russia. Albats was an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow assigned to the Chicago Tribune in 1990, and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993. She graduated from Moscow State University in 1980 and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 2004. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since its founding in 1996. Albats taught at Yale in 2003-2004. She was a full-time professor at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, teaching the institutional theory of the state and bureaucracy, until 2011 when her courses were canceled at the request of top Kremlin officials. In 2017 Albats was chosen as an inaugural fellow at Kelly’s Writers House and Perry House at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2019 — 2020 she taught authoritarian politics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Albats is the author of the four independently researched books, including one on the history of the Russian political police, the KGB, whose graduates are running the country today. She has a daughter and resides in Moscow, Russia.

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At the time of writing, over 1 million Ukrainians have fled Russian bombs, shells, and bullets. It is the largest displacement of European refugees since the 1990s Balkan wars and the largest refugee movement since the Syrian Civil War. The panel will explore Ukrainian refugees in the context of broader global refugee flows and it will reflect on what Canada and Canadians can do.

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Randall Hansen is Director of the Munk School’s Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, as well as the Global Migration Lab. He is Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration. He served as Interim Director of the Munk School from 2017 to 2020. Hansen works on immigration and citizenship, demography and population policy and the effects of war on civilians. His published works include Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Operation Valkyrie (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in 20th Century North America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), Fire and Fury: the Allied Bombing of Germany (Penguin, 2009), and Citizenship and Immigration in Post-War Britain (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Lama Mourad is an Assistant Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Her research interests are focused on the intersection of forced migration, local governance, and the politics of borders, with a regional focus on the Middle East. Professor Mourad previously held fellowships at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania, and with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her research has been supported by a number of institutions and agencies, including the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Her work has been published in both academic and public outlets, including the Journal of Refugee Studies, Middle East Law and Governance, Forced Migration Studies, the European Journal of International Relations as well as The Atlantic, Lawfare, The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, and The Toronto Star.

Craig Damian Smith is a Senior Research Associate at the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration Program at Ryerson University, a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, and a Senior Associate at the Global Migration Lab at the Munk School. His research examines the international politics of irregular migration, global migration governance, and refugee integration. Craig has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto. Learn more at www.craigdamiansmith.ca.

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This panel of scholars from war-torn Ukraine and from outside of Ukraine will examine some of the historic roots and modern religious dimensions of the Russian war on Ukraine. Themes will include the relations of the church to the state and the Ukrainian Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches’ pastoral and humanitarian responses to the war.

Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun is a Professor in Ecclesiology, International Relations and Ecumenism at the University College Stockholm (Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm). A graduate of the Theological Academy in Kyiv and National University in Athens, he accomplished his doctoral studies at Durham University under the supervision of Fr Andrew Louth. He was a chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, first deputy chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church, and later research fellow at Yale and Columbia Universities, visiting professor at the University of Münster in Germany, international fellow at Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life at the University of Alberta in Canada, director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and Assistant Professor at the same university. He has published several books in different languages, including La riconciliazione delle memorie: Ricordare le separazioni tra le Chiese e la ricerca dell’unità (Roma: San Paolo, 2021, in co-authorship with Lothar Vogel and Stefano Cavallotto); Sacred Architecture in East and West (edited, Los Angeles: Tsehai, 2019), Political Orthodoxies: The Unorthodoxies of the Church Coerced (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2018; Ukrainian translation published in 2018); Ukrainian Public Theology (Kyiv: Dukh і Litera, 2017, in Ukrainian), Scaffolds of the Church: Towards Poststructural Ecclesiology (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2017; Ukrainian translation published in 2018); Wonders of the Panorthodox Council, (Moscow: Christian Book Club, 2016, in Russian); Meta-Ecclesiology, Chronicles on Church Awareness, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; Ukrainian translation published in 2017); From Antioch to Xi’an: an Evolution of ‘Nestorianism’ (Hong Kong: Chinese Orthodox Press, 2014, in Chinese); Will, Action and Freedom. Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century (Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2008).

Nadieszda Kizenko is Professor of History and Director of Religious Studies at the State University of New York at Albany. She earned her BA at Harvard and Radcliffe in History and Literature and her PhD in History at Columbia University. Prof. Kizenko specializes in Orthodox Christianity on the territories of the former Russian empire, with a special interest in sacramental practice and liturgical texts. Her
award-winning books and articles include an annotated translation and introduction to the service composed by Teofilakt Lopatynsky on the occasion of the Battle of Poltava and ‘The Feminization of Patriarchy? Women in Contemporary Russian Orthodoxy.” Her most recent monograph, Good for the Souls: a History of Confession in the Russian Empire drew extensively on Ukrainian archives and was published in 2021 with Oxford University Press. Prof. Kizenko’s comparison of the liturgical practices of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine will soon appear as part of an edited volume, Orthodoxy in Two Manifestations? The Conflict in Ukraine as Expression of a Fault Line in World Orthodoxy (Peter Lang, 2022).

Prof. Jaroslav Skira is an associate professor of historical theology at Regis College; a Fellow of the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies (University of St. Michael’s College); and a member of the coordinating committee of the Jacyk Program. His research interests include modern Orthodox theology and ecumenical relations between the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Dr Pavlo Smytsnyuk is the Director of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies and a Senior Lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv. Pavlo studied philosophy and theology in Rome, Athens and St Petersburg, and holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford. His main interests are in political theology, Russian Orthodoxy, nationalism and religion, as well as colonial studies.

Marta Dyczok is Associate Professor at the Departments of History and Political Science, Western University, Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, and Adjunct Professor at the National University of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. She has published five books, including Ukraine’s Euromaidan. Broadcasting through Information Wars with Hromadske Radio (2016) Ukraine Twenty Years After Independence: Assessments, Perspectives, Challenges (co-edited with Giovanna Brogi, 2015), Media, Democracy and Freedom. The Post-Communist Experience (co-edited with Oxana Gaman-Golutvina, 2009), articles in various journals including The Russian Journal of Communication (2014), Demokratizatsiya (2014), and regularly provides media commentary. Her doctorate is from Oxford University and she researches mass media, memory, migration, and history.

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Lynn Viola, University Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto. Professor Viola is an archival researcher extraordinaire and award-winning historian of 20th-century Russian political and social history. Her research interests include gender, rurality, political culture, and violence in the era of Stalin. Author of many articles and books, her most recent publication is a monograph on NKVD perpetrators in Soviet Ukraine during Stalin’s “Great Terror,” Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Taras Koznarsky, Associate Professor, Ukrainian and Interim Chair and Graduate Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto. He is currently working on a project on the ‘text of Kyiv’ and the constructions of the city in Ukrainian, Russian, Jewish, and Polish literary and cultural imaginations, 1800s-1930s.

Oksana Dudko, Petro Jacyk Postdoctoral Fellow in Ukrainian Studies at the Department of History, St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan. She is an historian of 20th-century Europe, whose research focuses on violence, gender, and the cultural history of the First World War and the revolutions in Eastern Europe.

Serhy Yekelchyk, Professor of History and Germanic & Slavic Studies, University of Victoria. His research interests include the social and political history of the Stalin period, as well as the formation of a modern Ukrainian nation from the mid-nineteenth century to the present He is the author of six books on Ukrainian history and Ukrainian-Russian relations, with most recent book on the role of Ukraine in Russian and geopolitics Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2020).

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Dr. Filiz Tutku Aydin is an Assistant Professor at the Social Sciences University of Ankara. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto in 2012 and taught there. She returned to Turkey under TUBITAK returning scholars program in 2014. She has a book titled “Émigré, Exile, Diaspora and Transnational Movements of Crimean Tatars: Preserving the Eternal Flame” published by Palgrave, and she edited a forthcoming book on the occupation of Crimea in Turkish. She has published in Communist and Post-Communist Studies and several journals in Turkey and Ukraine, and has several book chapters, published in English, Romanian and Crimean Tatar. She completed a research project titled “Protection and enforcement of minority rights in the post-Soviet space between 1991-2014: Comparing the cases of Tatarstan, Chechnia in Russia and Crimean Tatars and Russians in Ukraine” funded by TUBITAK. Ms. Aydın is a member of the Crimean Tatar diaspora from Ankara, Turkey. She contributed the letter of “Statement of Concerned Scholars on the Current Predicament of the Crimean Tatars” to protest the Russian annexation of Crimea and participated in the Second World Crimean Tatar Congress in July 2015.

David R. Marples is a Distinguished University Professor of Russian and East European History, University of Alberta. He is the author of sixteen single-authored books, including Understanding Ukraine and Belarus (2020), Ukraine in Conflict (2017), Our Glorious Past: Lukashenka’s Belarus and the Great Patriotic War (2014), and Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine (2008). He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has also edited four books on nuclear power and security in the former Soviet Union, contemporary Belarus, and Ukraine. At the University of Alberta, he received the J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research (2003) and the University Cup in 2008. In 2009, he was Visiting Fellow for the Wirth Institute at the Department of Contemporary European History, University of Innsbruck where he taught a course on Ukraine and Belarus as EU Border Countries. In 2013, he was Visiting Fellow at the Slavic and Eurasian Center, Hokkaido University, Japan.

Ghia Nodia is professor of politics and director of the International School of Caucasus Studies in Ilia Chavchavadze State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is also a founder of the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD), an independent public policy think tank in Tbilisi, Georgia and member of the Forum’s NDRI think tank network, which he has led since August 2009 and in 1992-2008. In February–December 2008, he served as the minister for education and science of Georgia. Prof. Nodia has published extensively on democratization; state-building, security, and conflicts in Georgia and the Caucasus; theories of nationalism; and democratic transition in the post-cold-War context. He has been involved in pro-democracy advocacy efforts in Georgia and internationally and has been a frequent participant of international congresses and conferences on related topics.

Edward Schatz is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He recently published Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia with Stanford University Press. His previous books include Paradox of Power: The Logics of State Weakness in Eurasia (2017) and Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power (2009). Professor Schatz is currently working with Professor Rachel Silvey on a SSHRC-funded project about the downstream effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Lucan Way’s research focuses on democratization and authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union and the developing world. His most recent book (with Steven Levitsky), Social Revolution and Authoritarian Durability in the Modern World (forthcoming Princeton University Press) provides a comparative historical explanation of the extraordinary durability of autocracies born of violent social revolution. Professor Way’s solo authored book, Pluralism by Default: Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics (Johns Hopkins, 2015), examines the sources of political competition in the former Soviet Union. His book, Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Steven Levitsky), was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press. Way’s work on competitive authoritarianism has been cited thousands of times and helped stimulate new and wide-ranging research into the dynamics of hybrid democratic-authoritarian rule.

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Today many Russians believe that Russia is waging war not against Ukraine but against the West, which threatens Russia by using Ukraine. In their imagination, Russia is playing a messianic role, freeing not only Ukraine from the ‘Nazis’ and ‘foreign rule,’ but also the whole world from Western, especially American, domination. This combination of messianism with anti-Westernism has long roots. Nikolai Berdyaev’s books The Origin of Russian Communism (1937) and The Russian Idea (1947) offer one of the most influential historiosophical explanations of Russian messianism. Some assessments of the Russian philosopher coincide with the ideas of another thinker, who was almost the opposite of Berdyaev in his views – the ideologue of Ukrainian integral nationalism Dmytro Dontsov. However, Dontsov, much more than Berdyaev, linked Russian messianism to anti-Westernism and hostility to Ukraine. Today we can assess the correctness of their predictions about the further development of Russian messianism and Russia’s attitudes to the West and to Ukraine.

Oleksandr Zaitsev is a professor at the Department of History, Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. His studies deal mainly with the political history of interwar Western Ukraine and the intellectual history of Ukrainian integral nationalism. He is the author of Ukrainian Integral Nationalism of the 1920s and 1930s: Essays in Intellectual History (2013), Nationalist in the Fascist Epoch: Dmytro Dontsov’s Lviv Period, 1922-1939. Towards an Intellectual Biography (2019), co-author and editor of Nationalism and Religion: the Greek-Catholic Church and Ukrainian Nationalist Movement in Galicia, 1920s – 1930s (2011), editor of Fascism and Right Radicalism on the East of Europe (special issue of the journal Ukraina Moderna, 2013), and co-editor of Ukrainian Radical Right in Past and Present: Studies in Ideology, Memory and Politics (special issue of the journal Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2015).

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Abstract: Since the end of World War II, most response to large scale refugee movements has been handled by the international humanitarian system. Made up of UN agencies, national governments, and large international NGOs, this system relied heavily on its ability to move goods to refugees in camps. This system, as many have pointed out is both broke (underfunded) and broken, and increasingly fails to meet refugees needs. However, a new alternative is emerging. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, millions of Polish citizens, mostly self-organized, have provided food, housing, clothing and more to the two million Ukrainians who have crossed into Poland. In the absence of both the nation-state and international aid agencies, this internet-mediated volunteer response has become one of the fastest, most efficient and cost-effective humanitarian actions ever. In this talk, I look at the volunteer response as a form of distributed networked action and ask if it can permanently disrupt the traditional humanitarian system.

Bio: Elizabeth Cullen Dunn is Professor of Geography and the Director of the Center for Refugee Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has conducted research on Poland since 1992, and her first book, Privatizing Poland, was awarded the Orbis Book Prize. Her latest book, No Path Home, looks at the failure of humanitarian aid in the wake of the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008. Her current research, funded by the National Science Foundation, focuses on humanitarian labor, including volunteer action and the role of refugee resettlement agencies in agricultural labor markets.

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China represents Russia’s most powerful ally today. Yet, Russia’s invasion and subsequent international isolation have severely tested this friendship.  Three experts on China and its influence in the post-Soviet region discussed the future of the Chinese-Russian alliance, its impact on the war,  as well as the affect of the war on Chinese foreign policy.   

PANELISTS’ BIOS:  JUDE BLANCHETTE holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Previously, he was engagement director at The Conference Board’s China Center for Economics and Business in Beijing, where he researched China’s political environment with a focus on the workings of the Communist Party of China and its impact on foreign companies and investors. Prior to working at The Conference Board, Blanchette was the assistant director of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego. Blanchette is a public intellectual fellow at the National Committee on United States-China Relations and serves on the board of the American Mandarin Society. He is also a senior advisor at Martin+Crumpton Group, a geopolitical risk advisory based in Arlington, Virginia. He holds an M.A. in modern Chinese studies from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in economics from Loyola University in Maryland.  

PATRICIA KIM is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at Brookings and holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. She is an expert on Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and U.S. alliance management and regional security dynamics in East Asia. Previously, Kim served as a China specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she focused on China’s impact on conflict dynamics around the world and directed major projects on U.S.-China strategic stability and China’s growing presence in the Red Sea region. Kim received her doctoral degree from the Department of Politics at Princeton University and her bachelor’s degree with highest distinction in political science and Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and proficient in Japanese. Kim is also a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  

YURII POITA is Head of the Asia-Pacific section at the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies (CACDS), and the Asian Section at the New Geopolitics Research Network (NGRN), Ukraine. He is a scientist and researcher of China-Ukraine relations, incl. defence cooperation; China’s influence in the post-Soviet space; and "hybrid" methods of influence. Poita was educated at the Zhytomyr Military Institute (Ukraine) with a degree in military sciences, at the Kyiv International University (with a Master degree in international relations), and is currently working on his PhD dissertation at the Kazakh National University al-Farabi. He has experience in the defense, in think tanks, as well as on individual research projects in a number of Ukrainian, Kazakh and European institutions and think tanks.

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Marusya Bociurkiw is a storyteller and theorist, and Professor of Media Theory at Ryerson University, where she teaches courses in media studies, social justice media and documentary production, and conducts research in the areas of feminist/queer archives, affect theory, media activism, and migration studies. She is also an award-winning filmmaker and author. She has directed 10 films, and is author of 6 books including, most recently, Food Was her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter (Caitlin Press/Dagger Editions). Her most recent film, the award-winning documentary “This Is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights & the War in Ukraine”, screened in 12 countries and was translated into 3 languages. Her books have won and been shortlisted for several awards including Kobzar Award, Lambda Literary Award and Independent Publisher Award. She is the recipient of FCAD’s SRC Award (2014) and the Ryerson-wide Knowledge Mobilization & Engagement Award (2018), in recognition of her community-based research creation in the areas of affect theory, feminist archival studies, LGBT activism and migration studies.

Anna Dovgopol is a Gender Democracy Program Coordinator at Heinrich Boell Foundation, Kyiv Office – Ukraine. She has an MA degree in Gender Studies from Central European University. Anna is a gender expert and a trainer, and a feminist. She has over 10 years of experience with LGBT and feminist activism in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, including 3 years as a member of KyivPride Organizing Committee.

Tamara Martsenyuk holds a Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in Sociology, she is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine), Fulbright Scholar at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University (the USA, 2017-2018). She is the author of more than 100 academic publications, chapters of textbooks, and chapters of books, particularly, “Gender for All. Challenging Stereotypes” (2017), “Why not be Afraid of Feminism” (2018), “Defenders of the Galaxy”: Power and Crisis in the Male World” (2020). Tamara teaches at the Department of Sociology courses “Introduction to Gender Studies”, “Gender and Politics”, “Masculinity and Men’s Studies”, “Social Problems in Ukraine and in the World”, and others.
She is engaged in educational activism, conducts trainings for a wide target audience: journalists, think tanks, civil servants, politicians, civic activists, and more. Helps NGOs and think tanks to develop internal organizational policies on non-discrimination and gender equality. Tamara is the author of a popular online course on Prometheus titled “Women and Men: Gender for All”. Tamara shares the idea of public sociology – science and research for the sake of social change and is therefore constantly involved in various international research or teaching projects.

Tamara Zlobina holds a Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in Philosophy, she is an Editor in chief of online magazine Gender in detail
https://genderindetail.org.ua/

Ksenya Kiebuzinski is Head of the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre, and Slavic Resources Coordinator, for the University of Toronto Libraries. She also co-directs (with Professor Lucan Way) the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, and coordinates the Ukraine Research Group, at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. Her research interests include nineteenth-century French stage representations of Ukraine, its historical figures, and events, as well as bibliography, the history of the book, and Austrian Galicia.

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The Qurultay of 1991, the first National Convention since their return to Crimea declared Crimean Tatars indigenous peoples of Crimea, articulating their exclusive rights to the land and its resources. It was indeed the first time since korenizatsiia that the Crimean Tatars embraced indigeneity as a mobilizing political identity, aligning themselves with the global indigenous movement. The choice of this mobilizing framework is not self-evident. First, the Crimean Tatars shared more commonalities with other Soviet “deported nationalities”, than with First Nations in Canada or Maori in New Zealand. Second, it is intuitive to suggest that in light of the prevailing Soviet-era classifications on “backward indigenous people” and “developed nations”, Crimean Tatars, who consider themselves an urbanized modern nation would find it contradictory to also identify as indigenous. Finally, while the global indigenous movement poses itself as a counterforce to the capitalist West, Crimean Tatars support the market economy and identify with European liberal values. In light of these paradoxes, this talk asks why Crimean Tatars chose to embrace indigenous identity and align with the global indigenous movement? How this indigenous political identity has been used as a tactic in the Crimean Tatars’ struggle for self-determination? To answer these questions, I will tackle the role of the state in shaping identities, the change in socio-economic conditions in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, the rise and victories of the global indigenous movement, and the role of the intelligentsia in revisioning national history and popularizing the term “indigenous peoples”.

Mariia (Masha) Shynkarenko is a PhD Candidate in Politics Department at The New School. Her dissertation explores the instrumentalization of collective identities as tactics of resistance in the Crimean Tatars’ movement for self-determination. Her broader academic interests include nonviolent civil resistance, authoritarianism, and politics of history. Masha is currently an International Graduate Visiting Student at CERES and a Visiting Scholar in The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU. Her article “Compliant Subjects? How the Tatars in Crimea Resist Russian Occupation” just came out in Communist and Post-communist Studies journal.

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The Russian invasion has sparked unprecedented sanctions against Russia that have motivated the departure of many Western companies and that are projected to cause a contraction of as much as 15% in 2022. Simultaneously, the Russian army has experienced an extremely high casualty rate. What impact are such developments likely to have on authoritarian durability in Russia? Four experts on Russian politics, mass protest and civil military relations will discuss the impact of the invasion on Russian domestic politics.

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Marta Dyczok is Associate Professor at the Departments of History and Political Science, Western University, Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and Adjunct Professor at the National University of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. She has published five books, including Ukraine’s Euromaidan. Broadcasting through Information Wars with Hromadske Radio (2016) Ukraine Twenty Years After Independence: Assessments, Perspectives, Challenges (co-edited with Giovanna Brogi, 2015), Media, Democracy and Freedom. The Post-Communist Experience (co-edited with Oxana Gaman-Golutvina, 2009), articles in various journals including The Russian Journal of Communication (2014), Demokratizatsiya (2014), and regularly provides media commentary. Her doctorate is from Oxford University and she researches mass media, memory, migration, and history.

Shelby Grossman is a research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory. She was previously an assistant professor of political science at the University of Memphis. Dr. Grossman’s primary research interests are in comparative politics and sub-Saharan Africa. Her research has been published in Comparative Political Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, World Development, and World Politics. Dr. Grossman was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law from 2016-17. She earned her PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2016.

Yevhen Fedchenko is director of the Mohyla School of Journalism at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev, Ukraine and co-founder and chief editor for stopfake.org. He has spent almost 20 years within the media industry, covering international stories for different types of media. He was co-founder of Digital Future of Journalism programme for journalists and Digital Media for Universities Internet journalism curriculum development programme. He teaches courses in international news and factual programming. His main interests are digital journalism and innovations, journalism education in transitional societies, news standards, propaganda and weaponisation of information, coverage of international politics in media. He has contributed to RFE/RL, BBC, NPR, Public Radio International, Radio Canada International, CBC, Mashable, SKY and more.In 2010-2011 Yevhen Fedchenko was Fulbright visiting professor at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles, USA.

Volodymyr Yermolenko, PhD, is a Ukrainian philosopher, journalist and book writer. He works as analytics director at Internews Ukraine, a chief editor at UkraineWorld.org and a senior lecturer at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He holds a doctor of political studies degree from EHESS, France, and PhD in philosophy from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. He received Sheveliov Prize for best Ukrainian essays book in 2018, Petro Mohyla Prize in 2021, and Book of the Year prize in several nominations in 2018 and 2015.